Vinaigrette



(No Model.)

0. E. F. LEWIS.

VINAIGRETTE.

Patented July 19, 1 887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. F. LEW IS, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK.

VINAIGRETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,847, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed November 15, 1896. Serial No. 218,917.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. F. Lewis, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vinaigrettes and Similar Vessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in vinaigrettes and similar vesselssuch as flasks and perfume-bottles-and has for its object to provide a means whereby the stopper will be held in connection with the article when removed and in convenient position for replacement.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vinaigrette having my improvementattached,illustrating in dotted lines the position of the cap when removed from the body; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly sectional.

I aim by my invention to produce a surety against the loss of the cap or stopper of vessels when removed, specially in connection with that class of vessels usually worn by ladies as an accessory to a costume, suspended therefrom by a chain, and purposed to hold salts or perfume. To that end I attach or swivel at the top of the body A, upon opposite sides, ordinarily by means of a ring, a, eyes B, and provide the cap or stopper G, adapted to enter said body, with similar eyes, I), secured upon opposite sides of the top plate, D, in such manner as that when the said cap is positioned in the body the eyes upon both cap and body, upon each side, will be in the same vertical plane. I now attach in the bodyeyes 13 chains (1, which are passed upward through the eyes I) in the cap D, and united centrally a distance above said cap by a ring, 0, or similar device, to which ring, also, the chain or rod f, whereby the body is suspended, may be attached. \Vhen a screw-cap is employed, the ring a, carrying the body-eyes B, should be swiveled or made to turn upon the body A to permit the turning of the cap or stopper 0 without tangling the chain, as shown in Fig. 2. IVhen the ordinary slide-cap is employed, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, the ring a may be rigidly attached to the body. Thus, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, when the cap or stopper is removed, it slides up the side chain, (1, and is there sustained in security and in convenient position for replacement, which is accomplished by simply sliding the said cap downward to its normal position in the body, or screwing it therein, if provided with a thread.

In the construction of the cap D, to facilitate grasping the same for removal or insertion, I wind around the said cap from an immediate connection with the top plate strands of wire 16 to a point near the bottom, securing said wire to the face of the cap, the one strand closely against the other, by soldering or any equivalent means known to the trade. The bottom strand is then filed or otherwise finished to form a shoulder adapted to engage the top rim of the body A.

My improvement is equally adapted for use with flasks, perfumebottles, jars, fancy cans, and metal, glass, or earthenware vessels for holding liquids as for vinaigrettes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a vessel, of a stopper adapted to said vessel and provided with opposite eyes attached to a ring swiveled upon said vessel, and chains secured to said eyes, passing up at each side of said vessel through eyes on the stopper and united above the same to a single chain, substantially as shown and described, and for'the purposes set forth.

2. A stopper having its face wound with wire to form a shoulder, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. The combination, with a vessel having eyes at each side, of a stopper adapted to said vessel, having its face wound with wire to form a shoulder, and provided with opposite eyes, and a chain attached to said eyes, passing through the eyes on said stopper and united above the same, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose herein set forth.

CHARLES E. F. LE\VIS.

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